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ZigZag Journeys in Northern Lands;

ZigZag Journeys in Northern Lands;

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Chapter 1 THE RIVER OF STORY AND SONG.

Word Count: 750    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

, and Northern Europe; with the Rome of C?sar and Aurelian; with the Rome of the Popes; with the Reformation; with the shadowy goblin lore and beautiful f

re associated with every rood of ground from the Alps to the ocean. It is a region of the stories of two thousand years. The

rt of his army which had conquered Jerusalem to the Rhine; Julian erected a fortress on th

HRISTIANITY I

and began anew the castle-building. A Christian soldier in one of the legions that destroyed Jerusalem and tore down the temple, first brought the Gospel to

IN RHIN

tila, who conquered the city of the C?sars; Clovis, who founded the Christian religion in France; and Charlemagne, who established the Christian church in

üDESHEIM O

ame the abodes of mysterious beings: spirits of the rocks, forests, fens; strange maidens of the red marshes; enc

and republican principles came from the Rhine. Progress to him was cradled on the Rhine, like Moses on the Nile. In the Rhine lands Luther taught, and Robinson of Leyden lived and prayed; and from those lands to-day co

e Rhine the subject of its winter evening study, and to give an account of an excursion that so

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